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In these columns will be found « fair presentation of local and county news of general interest. Volume IV—Number 6 District Legionnaires Hear Pickens At Lively Session bI X . 5 * 5- . . j * thirty-right Veterans Speeding Up Claims HOTEL^BANQUET E. City, Manteo and Edenton Posts Learn Os 1337 Program Resultant effects of the World War eighteen years ago, insofar as -they have had a hearing upon the debilitation of veterans in this sec tion, brought American Legion cele brities and nearly 76 Legionnaires from three Albemarle posts into Edenton Tuesday at a dual rehabili tation service session that culminated with a lively banquet gathering at the Hotel Joseph Hewes, at which Department Commander Wiley M. Pickens, of Lincolnton, was the prin cipal speaker. Thirty-eight service dependents, who have had or are having difficulty in pressing their claims with the government, were tutored in the af ternoon as to how their efforts might be better faciliated. Jack Lang, State service representative of Char lotte, and Bruce Stubblefield, execu tive secretary of the national reha bilitation committee of the American Legion, with office in Washington, D. C., and Richard D. Dixon, local ser vice agent for the Legion, sat in with them at the Court House all the .afternoon, offering advice, giving encouragement, and cheering the ap plicants on their way. Most of the callers, some coming Dare and Hyde counties, came directly under Mr. Lang’s supervis ion, hut ten of them seeking, some rehabilitoj# ~ help, . were directly handled by Major Stubblefield. Need less to say the interviews were en couraging to all and it is thought considerable accentuation was made in shooting the claims along the way to quick adjudication. But it was at the night banquet, a ‘Dutch Treat” sort of affair with turkey and all the fixin’s as the piece de resistance, that the “show” developed into a great reunion of the war buddies and their State com manding officials. They came from Elizabeth City and Manteo posts, through the heavy early evening rain, to join with almost a 100 per cent attendance crowd from the Ed ward G. Bond Post here. Everybody knew everybody else apparently, and this was especially so with Jack Lang. It was Jack” this and ■“Hi, Jack” that on 'all sides, in fact .the salutations and revival of mem ories got so “high” Lang expressed himself mumblingly just before he went into the dinner— „ “God, old man, it’s been the most wonderful time I’ve ever had in Le gion work, and I’m just afraid I can’t pull off the speech I’m scheduled for.” But he did, and nobly, too, so much so that he came pretty near stealing the oratorical show, at least did until Commander Pickens was introduced. Then the little crowd went wild in their enthusiasm. They had re ceived a “boss” of whom they could be well proud and who Spoke to them in a calm, thoughtful, well modulat ed way that brought a quickening response to everything he said. Happy, indeed, were the several tributes paid by the speakers to their late compatriot and popular Chowan sheriff, Carroll A. Boyce. Pickens and Lang were especially earnest in their remarks as to the kindness of nature, warm congeniality, broad spirit of national service in time of emergency, and whole-souled lovable ness of Sheriff Boyce, and quite a few hands brushed eyes and fore heads while the simple eulogies were being delivered. One such was the sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Ethel Boyce, who sat in the rear and flushed with pride and tear ful recollections at the tributes. Af ter the banquet she went to the front and expressed her gratitude to the speakers for all they had been kind enough to say about her husband. And there was another point of lasting interest at the banquet. Two men, father and son, both war veter ans, one well on the way to three score and ten, Ike Davis, the young er, and B. H. Davis, the sire, resi dents of Wanchese but officially tied With the Legion post at Manteo, had motored in their little old car all the way from their home through the late afternoon pouring rain in their pr eagerness to be on hand at a gath ering “we wouldn’t have missed for all the-flah off Wanchese,” said Ike (Conirnued on page FHro) 1 1 THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY ' (contributions 1 ! TO RED CROSSj Mr. and Mrs. Leon Leary $ 2.0® Mrs. George Leary 1.00 Mrs. M. G. Brown #. 5.00 I A Friend .75 1 W. O. Elliott . 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Perry 5.00 Mrs. Mary Ballance 1.00 W. J. Davis ' 1.00 Miss Emma Byrum (additional) 4.00 1 Miss Meta Dowling (additional) 1.00 5 Ballard’s Bridge Church 29.60 ! Center Hill Sunday School 5.00 Mrs. Aggie Holley 1.00 Collins Lowther 1.00 1 J. A. Wiggins 1.00 } Mrs. J. A. Wiggins : 1.00 | Miss Etnily Smithwick i 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Griffin 5.00 County White Schools 1 Chowan High 39.22 • Beech Fork 6.50 Elmo | 5.00 Gum Pond 5.00 > Oak Grove ; , 6.50' ’ Center Hill : - 1.00 : County Colored Schools • Center Hill 2.50 : White Oak 1.50 > Britts i. 1.00 • Hudson Grove l ! 5.00 • St. John’s ... 1.25 Collections From Jars 1 Harrell’s Store (Valhalla) 2.03 ■ C. B. Warren 1.00 Hotel Joseph Hewes 1.17 1 Mitchener & Leary Drug Store 1.60 1 Habit's Lunch Room .70 ' Cotton Mill Village r , .45 W. T. Eason (Cross Roads) .73 Briggs (Gliden) .07 ; Triangle Filling Station 1.98 . L. W. Belch (Center HiU) .59 Graham Byrum’s Grocery 1.05 Burton’s 1.31 \ <3Kappeir* Tr__s_L.__T.--.__r 1.24 Mitchener’s Pharmacy 1.14 Sutton’s Drug Store .34 ; Harry Crummey’s Filling Sta. 1.35 1 Leggett & Davis .32 J. H. Holmes Co. .35 Bessie Vanbow .05 Center Hill Baptist S. S. 6.84 Chas. Conger 5.00 Y. P. S. L. St. Paul’s Church 3.00 Providence Baptist Church (colored) 10.00 Circle No. St. Paul’s Church 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harrell (additional) 1.00 Mrs. Claude Jones 1.00 RED CROSS FUND ALMOSTTOSI,2OO County Schools Respond Generously to Flood Appeal With the newspapers reporting the flood situation in the Mississippi as somewhat under control and the suffering less intense than it has been, Chowan County, has neverthe less, continued its interest and sym pathy and raised Red Cross receipts here to well on to the $1,200 mark. Mrs. J. N. Pruden, chairman of the local chapter, has had $992.35 of this ! aggregate in hand and is very anx- 1 ious through belated contributions in jars and from other sources to swell this sum to SI,OOO or more. In the first mentioned total, of • course, were the $l5O contribution by 1 the Edenton Peanut Company, sent 1 direct to Louisville, Ky., and the 1 Rotary Club donation of sls cleared through its national organization, 1 both of which gifts, however, have 1 been credited to the Edenton chap- ] ter. The $992.35 sum represents direct collections by Mrs. Pruden’s 1 chapter, and it is this which she is j anxious to enlarge beyond the SI,OOO : mark, and which she is confident of i seeing realized. ] The largest contribution this week j came from the county schools. It 1 totaled $74.47 and was turned over 1 to Mrs. Pruden by Superintendent 1 W. J. Taylor. It represents gifts ■ (Continued on Page Five) j •Senior Class Looking ' j To Commencement \ ——■ ■ ■ ■ 1 That the senior class of Edenton ; HK»h School realizes their public 1 school sojourn is just in the offing, ] is evident by the fact that their eyes 1 have already turned toward com- i mencement. The class- on Tuesday ] elected those who will take part in 1 the exercises as follows: Historian, i William White; prophet, Marguerite : Hollowell; giftorian, Pearl Whichard; 1 testator, Frances Dail; poet, Hattie 1 Williams; statistorlan, Edward Bass. 1 f j lidSjt. - *• “C-i. . Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 11,1937. ■23 COUSINS OUT WITH CLAIMS ON MIZZELLEJSTATE $35,000 Valuation De velops Lively List Os Heirs i $5,613 CASH ! Many Securities Listed 1 In Inventory Filed I By Administrator I i One first cousin and twenty-two i second cousins of the late H. W. Mizzelle, former Edenton jeweler who i died in the State Hospital in Raleigh last November, are the only living descendants of the deceased and will come in for an apportionment of their relative’s estate, estimated as of a value around $35,000 or $40,000. An inventory of the estate listing all of the holdings of the deceased at the time of his death as well as subsequent .investments, has been fil ed with Court Clerk Richard D. 1 Dixon, by Dr. N. B. Marriner, of Washington, N. C., the administrator and the nearest of kin to the dead i man. The inventory gives the names of 1 all the descendants, who are resi dents on the other side of Albemarle Sound from which section Mizzelle came to Edenton. No individual claims have as yet been filed by these descendants but each, it is ex pected, will carry the matter before the Superior Court, probably at the next term, for an apportionment. In addition to much available cash and negotiable securities the inven tory also lists the former home of Mizzelle, now occupied by the J. N. Oglesbys, as part of the estate, and legal notices appear this week offer ing ,the residence, located on North Broad street between Gale and Al bemarle streets, for sale at public auction on March 8. Probably the largest single item listed in the filed inventory is Dr. Marriner’s statement he has $5,613.- 78 on hand in bank, immediately available, if necessary, for court ex penses and quick temporary allot ment to the heirs. Mizzelle’s wife died a few years before her husband and her personal estate went to enlarge the one he had already established. No chil dren or brothers or sisters survived, and Dr. Marriner, a first cousin, was held the closest kin and was named administrator. There were six other first cousins, all of whom died, and the 22 other claimants besides the Washington physician, are children of these or second cousins of the de ceased. Dr. Marriner’s careful and shrewd handling of the estate during Mr. Mizzelle’s sojourn in the Raleigh hospital, has greatly enhanced it in value, it is understood, until today, according to Mr. Dixon, it has a min imum valuation of around $35,000. Some of the items catalogued in the inventory as part of the estate are: 34 shares of stock in the Hamp (Continued on Page Five) | "TO MY VALENTINE" j Love will always find away, so the story goes, and the little town museum in the Cupola House bore testimony to it this week through the happy receipt of a romantic val entine, yellowed and aged by 143 years, that originally had borne its message of devotion half way around the earth, all the way from Shang hai, China, to a sweetheart here in 1794. He cherished it close to his heart, no doubt, later secreted it in his father's vault'in the local bank from where ;t was removed during the War of 1812 and dumped with a lot of other papers on an attic Hoot in Hillsboro. There fifty or so years afterward children of another gener ation and age found it, and it got into another home in Raleigh, where still other youthful lovers saw it and from their mother it came back on it 3. way to Edenton to find a refuge for all time. A William Bond was the Edenton hoy who loved and got the Valentine originally, from his adored one, Elizabeth Snoad Bonner, living at the time with her parents, the Henry Bonners, in Shanghai—Elizabeth got her middle name from 001. John Snoad, of Beaufort County, who ap parently encouraged her in her affec tions with young Bond. Anyhow, Betty, in the far away land of pillage and opium* worked painstakingly and well, and fixed up a Valentine, heart-shaped, of course, and laced and befurbelowed beautifully, on ' I’mi 1 *- '-ft Sfci -/‘-■•■'i, •-; V ROTARY BIRTH AT I WINDSOR USHERS ; LIVELYJNFANT ■ Wrapped In New Char ter Panties, Child Starts Lustily LARGE~MEETIN G l Edenton Sponsor, Hard ing Charters, While 135 Give Help > With Judge Francis D. Winston • watching eagerly and nervously in ► case a Ceasarian operation might 1 prove necessary, Edenton Rotarians • brought another club baby into the | world last Friday night when they • performed a clever feat of Rotary 5 obstetrics in Windsor, wielding the “spreaders” with abandon, and deliv • ering a lusty, squealing, well devel -1 oped and very much alive infant, 1 later wrapping the cherub in charter • diapers fresh from the hope-chest of • District Governor Edmund C. Hard : ing of Washington, N. C., and which he fastened with a vocal safe- I ty pin that presaged a brilliant fu ture for the new child. And so that all the glory should ' not go to the folks from here, adept 1 as they are in such accouchements, ! brother Rotary surgeons were on ! hand from ten other clubs, every one armed with words of cheer and ■ happy satisfaction over the official : arrival of still another bunch of fine 1 and lively Rotarians. It was a dandy occasion and the ladies of the Wom ans’ Club where the gathering was ; inaugurated, spread themselves in adding gustatory eclat which other 1 clubs in the District may have diffi ■ culty in beating. Visiting delegations were on hand from Edenton, Elizabeth City, Ra leigh, Hertford, Rocky Mount, Bel haveh, Bethel, Robersonville, - Engle hard and Greenville, and besides Mr. Harding, who did the formal charter presentation, outlining the purposes of Rotary and the great opportuni ties for service it offers, Algernon Blair, of Montgomery, Ala., came all the way from there into the little Bertie county seat to carry his bless ings oratorically, which Charlie Lan caster, the new club president, re sponded to. Ted Johnson, of Raleigh, a past district governor, and May nard Fletcher, of Washington, and Wade Marr, of Elizabeth City, also brought comforting words, and I. T. Smith, pinch-hitting as a song leader for Louis Anderson, of Hertford, who couldn’t make the occasion, help ed show Windsor how 150 or so Ro tarians can tear into music when they make up their minds. Mrs. Mary Coffield, official Edenton pian ist, did the honors on that instru ment. The Edenton delegation comprised President N. K. Rowell, past presi dent Carroll E. Kramer who offi ciated at the Windsor charter night as toastmaster, C. H. Wood, J. H. Holmes, Secretary John A. Holmes, Earl Goodwin, Dr. W. I. Hart, J. Edwin Bufflap, Oscar H. Brown, (Continued on Page Five) VVVVVVV'VVVVVWVVVV V V VVVVV« V" which she had penned in delicate, still perfectly readable handwriting, ; these touching words: “Mr. William Bond, the 14th day of i February, It was my lot to be merry. Lots were cast and you I drew 1 Kind fortune said it must be you. 1 Sure as the grass grows 'round the < vine I drew you for my Valentine. i And if these lines you do refuse Pray bum the paper and me excuse.” t Mrs. Augustus Tucker, nee Miss Annie Cheshire, of Raleigh, sent the i Valentine to Miss Mary Pruden, and with it the following note: ! “At the time of the War of 1812 lots of papers from the Bank of < Edenton were sent to the bank at Hillsboro for safe-keeping. My great-grandfather was president of the bank at Hillsboro, and a lot of : unclaimed papers were thrown out and dumped in my grandfather’s i attic. When we were children, I, with my brothers and sisters, spent many happy hours reading these old ! letters and found this valentine. I had forgotten all about it until last i week when my little girls were mak ing valentines. They thought this so attractive they copied it on red pa per.” Naturally, Miss Pruden rushed her gift to the museum for posterity to enjoy and solve the age-old. riddle— what of the sweethearts? Did they marry or die forgotten? W M ! John White Plans Radical i | Changes In County System . MAYOR SPIRES LION SPEAKER Tells Local Club About Opportunities In Connection With New Albe marle Sound Bridge Lacking only two members of • having a 100 per cent attendance Edenton Lions held a very enthusias tic meeting Monday night in Hotel Joseph Hewes. A number of visitors were present including Mayor E. W. i Spires, who made a short address , relative to the forthcoming bridge over the Albemarle Sound. i Mr. Spires rehearsed the consider : able amount of discouragement which prevailed when agitation for a bridge was first begun and was frank . to say that there are some who even . now are so pessimistic as to say the bridge will never be built. However, , he is sure the last obstacle was pass ■ ed when the contract was awarded 1 for the bridge and expressed his be lief that there is nothing that could be of more importance to Edenton at the present time. The span, he said, would permit an intermingling of people on both sides of the Sound and will mean not only an oppor tunity for more business for Eden ton merchants but will permit Eden ton concerns to purchase products from folks on the south side, such as peanuts, lumber and other products. Mr. Spires stressed the importance of being cordial not only to those living in the territory which will be opened up by the new bridge, but to those who are already using the Chowan River Bridge and coming to Edenton to trade, as well as from other nearby sections. And in view of this fact the speaker told the Lions there was plenty of opportun ity for them to be of inestimable ser vice. He did, however, warn the Lions that too much should not be undertaken at' once, but rather for them to sponsor one project afid push it to a successful conclusion. He pointed out that possibly the Lions Club could be instrumental in secur ing industries for Edenton, mention continued on Page Five) CLINIC PROGRAM STARTS MARCH 1 Whichard Sets Date For Inoculations at County Schools Immediately following the decision of the County Commissioners last week to finance a typhoid and diph theria clinic in the county, Dr. M.-P. Whichard, county health officer has already arranged a schedule whereby all school children in the county will have an opportunity to be innoculat ed as a preventative measure. In announcing his schedule Dr. Whichard has written to the princi pals in the various schools informing them that while the innoculations are not compulsory, he hopes each one | would insist that all pupils in their ’ schools take the treatment. Accord ! ing to Dr. Whichard, as well as the County Cominissioners, who have agreed to spend as much as SI,OOO for the campaign, the innoculations are certainly for the best interest of all concerned. The campaigns have been put on in Chowan County for the past 20 years and the results of this work is self-evident. During 1936 there were only four cases of typhoid fever reported, and the diph theria rate has also been markedly decreased. When the campaign is completed among school children, Dr. Whichard will announce a schedule for adults and children of pre-school age. The schedule as announced for schools follows: March 1,9, 17—Pleasant Grove, 9 to 9:30 a. m.; Triangle, 1:30 to 2 p. m.; Yeopim, 2 to 3 p. m.; Cedar Grove, 3 to 4 p. m. March 2, 10, 18 —Edenton High School, 9 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. March 3, 11, 19—Edenton colored school, 9 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. March 4, 12, 22—Virginia Fork, 9 to 9:30 a. m.; Ryan’s Grove, 9:45 to 10:30 a. m.; Advance, 11 to 12 m.; Warren’s Grove, 1 to 2 p. m.; Green Hall, 2:30 to 3:30 p. m. March 5, 15, 23—Beech Fork, 9 to 9:30 a. m.; Gum Pond, 10 to 10:30 a. m.; White Oak, 1 to 2 p. m.; Oak Grove, 10:45 to 11:45 a. m.; Hudson Grove, 2:30 to 3:15 p. m.; Britts, 3:45 p. m. March 8, 16, 24—Chowan at Cross Roads, 9 to 10:30 a. m.; Chowan at Center Hill, 10:46 to 12 m.; Center Hill, colored, 1 to 1:90 p. m.; Elmo, 1:45 to 2 p. m.; Ryland, 2:15 p. m. V, . ) This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realise good results. $1.25 Per Year r Would Merge Town and 1 County School Bodies 3 Into One namesFboard , f k W. D. Pruden Promptly ■ Wires Refusal to Be Member i What apparently is a bomb of dis -1 comfort and anticipation among school authorities is the news rapid ly going the rounds that John F. White, Chowan County’s representa tive in the General Assembly, will ! play havoc with the present county school set-up. Mr. White, home over the week-end, told The Herald that he would introduce a bill abolishing the two school boards in Chowan and in their stead have only one board of education which would have jurisdic tion of all the schools in the county. At present there is a county admin istrative unit, of which W. J. Taylor is superintendent, and the Edenton city administrative unit of which John A. Holmes is superintendent. Mr. White was free to advance his reasons for his proposed change, saying that due to the size of the county one school board was amply sufficient to carry on school affairs and that the new set-up would elimi nate overhead expense as well as what he termed friction between the two school groups. By Mr. White’s bill the perpetual board of trustees of the Edenton city administrative unit would go out of existence and the new board be a county bqard of education in fact. By the change, Mr. White said, it would become necessary to remodel or revamp the County Board of Edu ction. In so doing he has selected a y list of five members to compose th# board and presented their names on Tuesday to the Education Committee of the House, hoping that, they will in turn be approved by the General Assembly. The five whom Mr. White has se lected to be on the Board are T. L. Ward, Z. T. Evans, W. D. Pruden, W. W. Byrum and J. B. Webb. Mr. Pruden, however, learning that he was named on the new board on Wednesday stated that he could not accept and accordingly sent the fol lowing telegram to Mr. White: “Understand you have named ne on proposed new County Board of Education. Appreciate honor but will not accept especially on account of position as County attorney.” Mr. White was frank to say he was not interested in who would be elected superintendent, and in nam ing the prospective members he had not consulted them as to whether or not they would serve. In introducing the bill affecting the present school set-up, Mr. White said he will be receptive to hearing any dissatisfaction and that any one could send their complaints to him at Raleigh or if a hearing is desired before the committee he would gladly arrange lor that. When questioned about the req.ibst made by the County Commiss.'u.,ers .hat he introduce a bill repealing the increase in salaries of County officers granted by the last General Assem bly, Mr. White said he would do nothing about it, and sent vord back to the Commissioners to that effect. Good Attendance At Garden Club Meeting .The Garden Club had an excep tionally interesting meeting in the Cupola House Tuesday afternoon, when a program of town beautifica tion was discussed. The association publicly expressed its gratification for the interest taken in Christmas decorations during the holidays and was very appreciative for Town Council’s action in planting the beau tiful permanent tree for Christmas decoration at the foot of Broad Street. Plans were also discussed for the. March meeting of the club when a visiting guest speaker will be in at tendance. Those who were present at Tues day’s meeting were: Mrs. J. A. Moore, Mrs. J. H. Mc- Mullan, Miss Mary Pruden, Mrs. W. I. Hart, Miss Margaret Pruden Mrs. J. G. Wood, Mrs. J. A. Powell, Mrs. H. M. S. Cason, Mrs. George P. By rum, Mrs. W. A. Graham, Mrs. J. H. Conger, Mrs. R. C. Holland, Mrs. R. P. Badham, Mrs. J. W. Davis, Mrs. R. Graham White, Mrs. L. P. Wil liams and Mrs. Sidney McMullan.
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